Chapter 735
The beginning of the demon wave was a historical event, as well as a critically important event in the Holy War's timeline .
The demon wave's arrival signified that the Chaos Abyss had successfully connected to the mortal plane . It would be very difficult for any Chaos Abyss resident to come to the mortal plane when it wasn't a time of Holy War, and the Chaos Abyss resident would also be quite weakened and easily kicked out of the mortal plane . But now, not only was establishing portals easier, even powerful demons would no longer be restricted by dimensional laws in the mortal plane now .
However, there would always be demerits together with benefits . Previously, due to dimensional laws' restrictions which forcefully suppressed those from the Chaos Abyss, the Demon Lords were only able to send out incarnations, clones, descendants, and so on . Even if they suffered some losses in the mortal plane, it wouldn't mean their actual death .
But right now, with the current situation, other demons were all coming to the mortal plane in their true bodies . You would be viewed as an embarrassment if you merely sent an incarnation . Not only that, an incarnation would be weaker, so you wouldn't even be able to get anything for yourself when contending with the other demons . The incarnation being slain repeatedly would also keep weakening your true body, and a powerful mage who captured the incarnation would even be able to use it to attack the demon's true body, steal its power, and enslave it by finding out its true name . This would obviously be a poor deal .
So, all the demons came in their true bodies . Although their true bodies were more powerful, the downside was that they would be undergoing great risk . For most of them, death would truly be death .
Demon Lord Inferno Soulchainer Shark Shikblair was a rather rare demon species, a River Styx Corrosion Shark who had leveled up to become a high-level demon . He appeared like a large black shark that was swimming around in the middle of black mist . Only his scarlet bloodthirsty eyes could be seen clearly through the mist . He would definitely be quite scary if he appeared at night .
His species loved to feast on souls . Although River Styx Corrosion Sharks were unable to actually enter the River Styx, they would always live near the River Styx and ambush newborn demons who had just climbed ashore . They loved to eat the flesh and blood of souls that hadn't finished transforming yet, which was why they were also known as scavengers .
Every single living creature would have the instinct to protect infants of its own kind . Even the demons would automatically attack any River Styx Corrosion Sharks that they came across . Any demon who was lucky enough to escape from a shark would also carry a grudge and come back later for revenge after becoming more powerful .
River Styx Corrosion Sharks were a low-intelligence demon species, so Shikblair being able to level up to Demon Lord was the best evidence of how out of the ordinary he was . Currently, within his protective mist, black chains were binding the souls of howling mortals . Shikblair enjoyed fresh souls as snacks, and howls of despair would give him pleasure .
As he was a Demon Lord who possessed the ability of flight, most of his subordinates were also flying demons . But unfortunately for Shikblair, it was far too uncommon for those of his own species to level up enough to gain intelligence, so most of his subordinates were winged demons and succubi .
Winged demons were a major subtype of demons . Any demon which had wings and could fly would count as a winged demon . Most of them were regular demons which were really muscular . Some were demons who had devoured something with the ability of flight, gaining the power of flight themselves .
The winged demons' appearances were widely varied, from what looked like a gorilla with wings, all the way to wolves with wings .
But since these winged demons had chosen to keep the ability of flight, this would naturally mean decreasing their weight and increasing wingspan, which would also weaken their melee combat ability which demons were so proud of .
Winged demons weren't usually that difficult to deal with . Normally, these demons that had chosen a wrong path of evolution would evolve a second pair of wings to further improve their ability of flight and how much weight they could have .
Meanwhile, succubi were one of the few demon species which would keep humanoid form . There was no need to introduce them, as they were far too famous .
"One Demon Lord, who's the very rare species of Soulchainer Shark, the leveled-up version of River Styx Corrosion Shark . He has 13 succubi and more than 200 random winged demons under his command, as well as a small special squad of evolved four-winged Berserker Demons . This will be slightly troublesome…"
Ordinary guests all hid in their rooms, while the airship crew and warriors prepared for battle on the deck .
The magic cannons on the starboard and port sides of the airship kept firing, but achieved very little as the winged demons were quite agile .
The winged demon squadron was now following the airship . The slow airship wouldn't possibly be able to outrun them . However, the winged demons didn't immediately attack . They were also observing us .
"Grandmaster Raikage, please take action!"
The airship captain was apparently asking a monk named Raikage to protect the airship…
"Asking a monk to protect an airship? Which genius came up with this idea?"
I really felt like this was unreliable . Everyone knew that monks were experts in melee combat . Any monk who got within melee distance would easily be able to neutralize medium-length and long weapons .
I had previous experience of being beaten by undead monks before . Earth Elemental God Emordilorcan was also the strongest monk I had ever seen in the world . He was ridiculously cheat-like powerful at melee combat .
I wasn't trying to say that monks were weak . In fact, high-level monks would always be quite ridiculously strong . However, monk was a job class with one of the shortest effective ranges among all job classes .
Hire a monk to protect an airship? How was the monk supposed to deal with aerial enemies? Send out an energy blast or Spirit Bomb like in an anime?
The monk Raikage appeared to be only around 30 years old . He definitely appeared quite young as he smiled with his eyes closed, yet he was already Saint rank . This didn't actually mean that he was a young genius . It was because the monk job class was really good at slowing the aging process already as this job class focused on developing the physical body's potential .
Raikage currently had his eyes closed as he meditated . It seemed as if he had a plan .
"Hey, maybe he has some ultimate technique, such as a special bloodline or skill, a magic item which forbids flight, a magic item which increases gravity, or something . He might even be an expert Saint rank with a Soul World . " Harloys disagreed with my opinion . Seeing how calm that Raikage seemed to be, maybe he really did have something up his sleeve .
All of the airship's guards came out . There was the Saint-rank monk and three Legend ranks: one archer, one swordsman, and one mage . There was also a random assortment of Silver and Gold ranks… Just a decade ago, Gold ranks had been viewed as grandmasters, but now they had been relegated to being nothing more than cannon fodder . I could only exclaim over how the world had changed .
The magic cannons on the airship were quite powerful . However, they were still a bit insufficient for fighting against demons . Chaos Abyss creatures were naturally fire resistant, which also meant that it was normal for them to be resistant against explosions . Plus, these winged demons could fly quite agilely . The magic cannons were very little threat to them .
In order to save money, it wasn't possible for the transportation airship to also have a guard airship escort . This meant that the transportation airship could only rely on its own regular guards .
A dozen or so winged demons began their attacks rather rashly by charging at the airship . Although their attack was just a test of our defenses, if any of them crashed into the wooden airship deck, it was guaranteed that a large hole would appear in the airship .
The monk Raikage took action . He suddenly left afterimages behind as he continuously jumped and flashed around . Dull thuds of his fists meeting demon flesh could be heard in the air . When Raikage landed on the deck again, all of the approaching winged demons had been smashed into unrecognizable tiny pieces of flesh .
And then, Raikage angrily glared at the remaining winged demons in the sky . His aura then swirled around him as if he was about to release some ultimate technique .
"…Come down here and fight me if you dare!"
Alright then, we had indeed overestimated him . Was this some new taunting technique of this generation?
It seemed that hiring a monk in order to guard this airship wasn't because this monk was special, after all . Maybe this monk had been the only Saint rank available for hire, or, more likely, the airship captain had just wanted to save money .
Monks were the cheapest job class to maintain, after all . They didn't need any special weapons or equipment . Monks were ascetics, so they would ask for the least to hire them . In fact, some monks were even willing to work for free as long as you gave them free food and boarding…
"As expected, I shouldn't have tried to save money after all…"
I heard the airship captain muttering this to himself . The airship transportation service had an advertisement that every single airship would be protected by at least one Saint rank . It seemed that this was how the airship captain had ensured the truth of the advertising . I was at the entrance to the deck and heard his muttering, so of course the monk would naturally hear him as well, as monks excelled in developing their five senses .
Raikage's face reddened in anger, but he had nowhere to vent it . He could only viciously glare at the flying demons in the sky .
The demons were in no rush . Although normal demons would be going crazy right now over fresh blood, meat, and souls, they had hunted plenty over the past few days, sating their bloodthirsty instincts . Currently, they were more like a pack of wolves which was hunting prey only for fun .
Unlike other demons, Inferno Soulchainer Shark Shikblair hadn't intended to stay in a single place to begin with . He and his subordinates would casually fly wherever they wanted, enjoy a feast wherever they stopped, and hunt whenever they became hungry . They would also hunt whenever they were bored . No single aerial knight would possibly be able to stop them .
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